The Arctic sea-ice decline is among the most emblematic manifestations of climate change and is occurring before we understand its ecological consequences. The future changes in algal productivity investigated in a study just published on Science Advances, a collaboration between the Finnish Environment Institute, the University of Cape Town and the CMCC Foundation. Among the authors, CMCC researcher Enrico Scoccimarro […]

How will the Antarctic ice sheet respond to global warming? To answer to this question, it’s essential to understand how it has behaved in the past while modelling its future evolution. A review recently published on Nature Communications explore ice-bed-ocean interactions and the interface processes to improve our ability to describe past major changes, constrain Antarctic ice sheet tipping points and assess rates of past and future sea-level changes […]

The Ross Sea Expedition of the Italian research vessel OGS Explora. A 60 days campaign and five research projects aimed at collecting current and past evidence of ocean dynamics and its impact on ice-sheet retreats. CMCC researcher Florence Colleoni, who takes part to the expedition, tell us about her onboard research and personal experience […]

The past climate and the evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet to assess the current rate of ice melting: CMCC researcher Florence Colleoni participates to the 32nd Italian Antarctic Campaign on board of the research vessel OGS Explora […]

The Antarctic sea ice cover have continued to increase despite climate change effects. Nevertheless, Antarctic ice sheet is at risk due to climate change: it doesn’t lose its mass because of surface melting, but by the calving of icebergs at the front of marine terminating glaciers or at the front of the ice shelves. But there’s another additional threats to the future of Antarctica, that is the ocean-induced basal melting of the ice sheets, a process that could cause the fast disappearing of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The complete melting ice of West Antarctica would represent a global mean sea level rise of about six meters […]